Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Peter Gabriel by Armando Gallo Peter Gabriel – Plays Live (1983) [2021, Remastered] Peter Gabriel – Plays Live (1983) [2021, Remastered] EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included Total Size: 606 MB | 3% RAR Recovery Label: Real World | EU | Cat#: PGDLCD1 / 884108007778 | Genre: Progressive Rock. ‘Plays Live’ was compiled from live recordings made at four venues across the American Midwest in late 1982. It is effectively a sign-off to the first phase of Peter Gabriel the solo artist. As such, it’s a celebration of all that was achieved on that opening quartet of self-titled long-players, while also standing as confirmation that Peter was an engaged and engaging frontman. At the time, all bar one of the tracks would be familiar to the Gabriel completist, the exception being the previously unreleased ‘I Go Swimming’. A studio vocal version of the song has still never been released. The touring band captured by the recordings consists of Peter, alongside Jerry Marrotta (drums and percussion), Tony Levin (bass and stick), David Rhodes (guitar) and Larry Fast (synthesizer and piano), whilst the iconic cover image of Peter in ‘monkey mask’ make-up was taken by long-time collaborator Armando Gallo. ― Amazon. CD 1 01. The Rhythm of the Heat – 06:27 02. I Have the Touch – 04:51 03. Not One of Us – 05:43 04. Family Snapshot – 04:48 05. D.I.Y. – 04:06 06. The Family and the Fishing Net – 07:34 07. Intruder – 04:48 08. I Go Swimming – 05:01. CD 2 01. San Jacinto – 08:30 02. Solsbury Hill – 04:41 03. No Self Control – 05:03 04. I Don’t Remember – 04:13 05. Shock the Monkey – 07:10 06. Humdrum – 04:23 07. On the Air – 05:23 08. Biko – 06:55. If you encounter broken links or other problem about this publication, please let me know and write your comment below. I will reply and fix as soon as possible. Growing Up Live. In 2002 and 2003, following the release of his album UP , Peter Gabriel went on the road with his Growing Up tour, once again collaborating with production designer Robert Lepage to create a spectacular and theatrical live experience. The tour took in thirty-two cities across the USA, Canada and Europe and this concert performance was recorded over two nights at the Filaforum in Milan in May 2003, with Peter Gabriel and the band performing in the round at the centre of the arena. A concert film capturing the live show was released in late 2003, but Growing Up Live has never been a stand alone audio release, until now. Peter Gabriel in Mexico City. Nov 4, 2002 © Armando Gallo. It was the beginning of 2002 that we decided to go out on the road. I hadn’t been out for 10 years so it was going to be interesting to see if there were any fans still out there, if we could sell any tickets and how it would all work on-stage. Last time [Secret World tour] we had two stages, a male stage and a female stage, and they were representing different things, urban, rural and this time we have moved the axis vertically, and it’s a sky stage and an earth stage. The album title had been UP, so there was a certain logic to this vertical translation onto the stage. We found the energy was different when we were performing on the proscenium to stage to when we were performing on the round stage last time, you obviously have a lot more people all around you and you have problems about whether some people will always get to see your backside, so we are going to rotate our backsides to share the great and good views available! The touring band you will hear on this recording consists of Ged Lynch (drums), Tony Levin (bass, vocals), David Rhodes (guitar, vocals), Richard Evans (guitar, mandolin, whistle, vocals), Rachel Z (keyboards, vocals), Melanie Gabriel (vocals) and Peter Gabriel (vocals, keyboards). “The band is a mixture of old and new. In the tried and tested friend department there’s David Rhodes on guitar who I’ve played with for many years, since his band Random Hold supported me on a tour way back. He began life as a sculptor, never wanted to be a professional musician, but sort of fell into it. Tony Levin, who’s on bass, was actually on the first record that I did after I left Genesis. He’s the longest serving member, but obviously he does so many other things on his own, with King Crimson and many other people over the years. I think he is one of the most respected bass players in the world, so I feel very lucky that he is always out with me. There’s Rachel Z who is a very able keyboard player. She is better known in the jazz world but has been developing her own sort of rock stuff and has just put out an album of Joni Mitchell covers too. She’s very good. She’s also the daughter of an opera singer and has a very useful set of pipes on her as well. I’ve worked in the studio with Richard Evans many times, but this is the first time live. He plays numerous instrument; mandolin, flutes, whistles, guitar. So that’s fun. The drummer Ged Lynch. When we were making the album, Manu (Katché) was away on tour for some of the time so Ged came in. Manu’s a brilliant player but he is quite a decorator in some ways so it’s always beautifully and very musically done. Ged, on the other hand, sits in this tight box and there’s this sort of powerhouse driving things forward. It felt good for me to try and make the band focus more direct this time out. Ged is also a great percussionist and did a lot of percussion on the record as well. Then, my daughter Melanie is out with me singing, and that’s a real pleasure for Dad.” Special guests during the night are The Blind Boys of Alabama, Dr Hukwe Zawose, Charles Zawose, Sevara Nazarkhan and the voice of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The 2008 TIME 100. I did not know Peter Gabriel from a bar of soap when I met him for the first time on his friend Sir Richard Branson's Necker Island in the Virgin Islands. But within moments, he had charmed me. I heard him sing his Biko , which still moves me to tears each time I hear it, as we stood round the piano he was playing. He volunteered to give me my first swimming lessons and was a great hit with two of my grandchildren who met him there. What is his secret? He has a heart—in our part of the world, we would give him our highest accolade and say, "He has ubuntu ." It is that marvelous quality that speaks of compassion and generosity, about sharing, about hospitality. Peter founded WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), presenting 50 festivals in more than 40 countries and conducting workshops in schools around the globe. He is a passionate human-rights advocate who participated in the 1988 Human Rights Now tour, and he co-founded Witness, which provides cameras and computers to activists. In 2007 he and Branson co-founded the Elders, which Nelson Mandela and his wife Graça Machel launched in Johannesburg on Mandela's 89th birthday. With our world battered by so many problems—ethnic conflict, oppression of women and children, climate change—their idea was that a group of eminent people would serve as Elders for our global village. A dozen of us—including Kofi Annan, President Jimmy Carter and Fernando Cardoso (with an empty chair for Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma)—have accepted their offer and challenge. Peter, 58, has received many awards, including the Man of Peace award given by Nobel Peace laureates. He has ubuntu , and he deserves this latest accolade richly. Bishop Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. Plays Live. Plays Live was compiled from live recordings made at four venues across the American Midwest in late 1982 and released the following June. The sleeve notes memorably state; “Some additional recording took place not a thousand miles away from the home of the artiste. The generic term of this process is ‘cheating’” . But it’s fair to say that the essence of the live shows remains very much intact on these recordings. Peter Gabriel by Armando Gallo. Plays Live was effectively a sign-off to the first phase of Peter Gabriel the solo artist. As such, it’s a celebration of all that was achieved on that opening quartet of self-titled long-players, while also standing as confirmation that Peter was an engaged and engaging frontman. At the time, all bar one of the tracks would be familiar to the Gabriel completist, the exception being the previously unreleased I Go Swimming . The touring band captured by the recordings consists of Peter, alongside Jerry Marrotta (drums and percussion), Tony Levin (bass and stick), David Rhodes (guitar) and Larry Fast (synthesizer and piano), whilst the iconic cover image of Peter in ‘monkey mask’ make-up was taken by long-time collaborator Armando Gallo, who picks up the story: It was taken at The Universal Amphitheater in Studio City, Los Angeles, Dec 1982. Peter played two shows there and this photo is from the first show. The audience was seated with a large space between the front row and the stage. When it came to the moment where Peter used to dive on top of the audience, it was clear that this wasn’t going to happen. Looking up and raising his right arm, the blue of is eyes came clear into the light. A rare moment of stillness and I shot the photo before he came down from the stage and started walking over the seats and into the crowd of the first few rows. “When I walk off the stage I relate to people one to one” Peter told me. “I am vulnerable”. I was very impressed to see the courageous crop that was done to my photo. Very powerful! Honoured and proud. Inside the recording truck. Talking to Michael Bonner of UNCUT Magazine in July 2020, Peter described the thought process behind this act of vulnerability and the connection it forged with his audience. There were these post-hippie psychological games that people would play to extend their own boundaries and fears, to dig down into their fears and one of these was an exercise in which you would fall back with your eyes closed and allow people to catch you. It’s a trust exercise and I thought this was compelling. I had spent a long time thinking about how you bridge the border between performer and audience. I used to open shows walking through the audience with lights or drums or I’d sing numbers from the furthest seat from the stage, all sorts of things, and I thought actually maybe the ultimate thing you could do as a performer would be to fall backwards off the stage and, except for a couple of times, – one of which I think was in San Francisco where the audience kindly cleared a space for me to do whatever it was I was going to do – it worked very well. That was in fact a painful moment. But, generally, you were putting yourself into the hands of the audience, giving them the power and, really, they would then pass me around. I know now that it is quite a popular sport for performers but at that time other musicians weren’t doing that. It was a powerful, symbolic act that allowed me to make myself vulnerable, trust the audience. Sometimes I’d be passed all the way around the venue for perhaps five or ten minutes and would have to hang on to whatever articles of clothing I had left when I returned to the stage. All the time the band would have to keep playing – ‘Lay Your Hands on Me’ was the song we were playing – but it was a ritualistic moment in the show. The album was mixed and co-produced by Peter Walsh at Ashcombe House and he recalls his time working with Gabriel on the album in an interview in the FOCUS section of this website. Peter had a studio in a stone barn in the grounds of Ashcombe House. We came up with the credit “FIX ‘N’ MIX”. By today’s standards we didn’t actually fix that much, but we wanted to be honest about what we had done. Peter’s lead vocal needed a few touch-ups. Not because of the performance, more for technical reasons. It’s hard to get the best sound quality out of a vocal when you’re falling backwards into an audience (Lay Your Hands on Me) or hanging upside down from a piece of scaffolding (Shock the Monkey)! Peter Walsh, mixing Plays Live at Ashcombe House. Photo by Larry Fast. Another reason was to add a little more consistency to the overall sound of the album. The recordings we selected came from different shows, different venues, so we had to replace a few elements here and there to make it sound more like it was all coming from the same performance. We also changed the running order of the show for the album, so I needed to re-record some of Peter’s spoken introductions. It was quite tricky to make them sound authentic and brings back memories of the two of us in the studio, late at night, trying to get the perfect take without bursting into fits of laughter. Original Play Live ad, courtesy of Peter Walsh. An edited version of the album entitled Plays Live: Highlights was released as a single CD in 1985. In order to fit all the songs onto one disc the songs The Rhythm of the Heat , Not One of Us , Intruder and On The Air were omitted from that release and only made available on CD once the full original tracklisting was released over two CDs in 1987. These four songs have been returned to their rightful place in the running order on updated digital releases in 2019. In August 2020, a half speed remastered LP, by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, was released, with newly scanned artwork that replicates the original LP. ARMANDO GALLO. Armando Gallo debuted as photo journalist in 1967 interviewing the Beatles for the Italian magazine “Big” . Inspired by this experience, he dropped his dreams of a career as an architectural designer to move to London as correspondent for another Italian rock weekly “Ciao 2001″ . In 1978 Sedgwick & Jackson published his first major book on Genesis , entitled The Evolution of a Rock Band . The book is the first extended history of the band’s early days which has never been covered by any other biographical source. Two years later, after moving to Los Angeles, Armando redesigned and self-published the book as Genesis – I Know What I Like via his own company DIY Books . In 1986 he published a book on Genesis’ founding member and frontman Peter Gabriel upon the release of Peter’s historic So album. To this day both books are among the most widely sought after memorabilia for fans of both Genesis and Gabriel.Recently Armando’s new company, ARGA Images , launched a partnership with Zentric from Buenos Aires and together they produced a ground breaking app of the 1980 book. Genesis - I Know What I Like has just been released as an app for the iPad, following their first app production, Peter Gabriel - So 25th anniversary , released in February 2014. Both apps are available on the Apple App Store. Armando has photographed all of music greats, including Bob Marley , Led Zeppelin , Paul McCartney , Frank Zappa , U2 , Pink Floyd , David Bowie , Lou Reed , R.E.M. , The Who , Queen and many more. His photos appear on the album covers of Genesis ’ Seconds Out , Peter Gabriel ’ s Play Live , Vasco Rossi ’s Canzoni per me , Zucchero ’s Fly and many more. He also directed and produced the Even Better Than The Real Thing video for U2 ’s Achtung Baby video collection. Armando has also been a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association since 1978 and as such a voting member for the Golden Globes . His photographs of Hollywood stars can be currently seen in magazines throughout the world and have graced many international magazine covers. He’s been the recipient of several awards, among them two Telegattos and “Hitweek”’s “Travelling Heart” .